Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

I do not doubt that one bit. But it sounds like you need to think about why that is true.

"if you think nobody, ever, declared "bug bankruptcy" and marked stuff as obsolete or "needs reproduction with a newer version", then you, like Jamie, are kidding yourself."

And that is just a straw man. Neither I nor Jamie nor anyone else I can think of right off has said otherwise. The issue is not declaring bug bankruptcy, the problem is a long-term, consistent pattern of ignoring bugs, avoiding maint. and refusing to fix, simply kicking every problem down the road till the next version comes out and 'bug bankruptcy' is invoked.

"it's not like Jamie couldn't re-open bugs at the time either"

There is little more pointless than re-opening or re-filing a bug with the same team that studiously ignored your bug for years already.

And this was really an old pattern already by the time jwz wrote that. Let me repeat that - 12 years ago, when jwz wrote that, this was already an old pattern.

Sure it would be different if this were a new project, or one that had a good reputation. But it's just not. GNOME has been on this past for nearly 15 years, expecting that to suddenly change seems quite irrational.